FOX News "mistakenly" airs potentially illegal anti-Obama ad
By SilentPatriot Thursday Aug 21, 2008 6:30pm
Wow. After reading at HuffPo yesterday that a right wing smear group produced an ad so atrocious (and potentially illegal) that even FOX News wouldn't touch it, I knew it had to be bad. Boy, was I right. While discussing McCain's "housing problem" on Studio B Friday afternoon, FOX producers "accidentally" aired a William Ayers ad produced by a group called the America Issues Project. Putting the ad aside, notice how loaded (and laughable) the report is to begin with.
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Henneberg: The McCain campaign is more than happy to inject Tony Rezko back into this election cycle, as they did in an new ad this morning. Rekzo, as you may remember, is a guy who was convicted in June on corruption charges, separate from this housing deal with Obama. But Rezko, or his wife, helped buy the empty lot next to Obama's million dollar house in Chicago and then sold part of it back to him, and the McCain campaign put that in a new ad. Take a listen.
[Cue 30 seconds of the wrong ad]
Henneberg: This is not the right ad.
Smith: It's not the right ad, huh?
Henneberg: Well that wasn't exactly the right ad.
Smith: Well, it was an ad. C'mon, give us a break...it's busy back here today.
Henneberg: It was an ad! [Laughter]
"This negative campaign ad is clearly express advocacy, and under a federal law passed in 2003, the Bi-Partisan Campaign Reform Act (known colloquially as McCain-Feingold), it cannot legally be paid for with corporate money, including those of a non-profit," said Laura MacCleery, deputy director of the democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice. "The ad indisputably concerns an election, takes a position on the character and fitness for office of a candidate, and raises no legislative issue. Even this highly skeptical Supreme Court would turn up its noses at the foul odor emitted by this clear abuse of federal election law."
If the experts HuffPo spoke to are correct and the ad is indeed illegal, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I've never worked in television before so excuse me if I'm way off base here....but don't these clips have to be cued up from some sort of storage system? If FOX agreed not to touch it, why would they still have it on file. let alone within reach to "accidentally" air it? Somethings fishy here. Then again, we're talking about FOX News.
I wonder if the other networks are irresponsible enough to pick up on FOX's "mistake" and use it as an excuse to run the ad. I wonder if that was the idea all along.
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Negative works and Fox news is a joke....
Well, thanks to you guys, now we've seen it, too. Maybe the best play would have been not uploading it?
If the ad is run as a "news" item and not an actual advertisement then no law is broken, correct? I better go find my hip boots..
This had better become a lawsuit - I'm frickin' tired of this crap - THAT THEY GET AWAY WITH . . . .
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Fux Noise doesn't bother with facts, so why would the bother with legalities? Hopefully this will cause them grief, but probably wishful thinking.
Dirtypants @ 2:
That ad is extremely damaging to simple folk. I wish one of those supposed "crazy far left" websites like Moveon would run an ad like this on McCain.
No way is this an "accident." They really think we're all stupid.
A fox news "pundit" should have a pimp for a brother so he would always have someone to look up to.
Sounds like it's time to bring up Keating.
I got CNN in the background, see if Wolf stoops so low as to air it as news, sure they are itching to. I expect Olbermann will mention the Faux Pax but not air the ad.
Hmm, for an accident, it sure took them plenty of seconds to catch it. Just enough time to get their digs in.
"If the experts HuffPo spoke to are correct and the ad is indeed illegal, it will be interesting to see how this plays out. "
Since it was an "accident", nothing will happen. Who's gonna pursue an investigation? Pelosi?
Obama may raise a stink, but the right-wing media machine will drown him out.
Rena @ 7:
Do you really want the answer to that question?
Unfair and Unbalanced = Faux Nooz
the problem i have with the clip is how flip they are about it. like oh busy news day. we're fuck ups. HA HA.
what a bunch of dumb ass people. Shepard smith should not come to work on Monday or any day after that.
Only the most lost-cause wingnuts know or care about Ayres or Rezco. These smears get no traction with the public because they have to be explained, and then when they are, anybody with an IQ above "turnip" will realize that there's nothing of substance there.
beancounter @ 12:
One qualification would be having a backbone, something Nancy unfortunately lacks.
This is a 'mistake' in the same way as identifying David Vitter and Larry Craig as Democrats when they are charged with sexual crimes was a mistake. The same kind of mistake as constantly calling Obama 'Osama' and Osama 'Obama.' In other words a carefully considered mistake with malice aforethought.
beancounter @ 12:
You don't really think the Bushie FEC will do anything do you?
I'm wondering how ''anyone'' who works at fox can go home and look their family in the eye and think they put in an ''honest'' days work. Do they really think that their children will be somehow be exempt from the damage they're doing to their country? Shame on all of them.
While everyone is laughing at Fox News and talking about an “illegal” ad, I watched it air (in its entirety) on the local NBC news here in Michigan at 5 pm.
This channel: http://www.woodtv.com/
If it’s actually illegal, maybe someone should tell them.
"It wasn't the Rezko ad we were hoping to see! HaHa!"
Goebbels would be very proud.
Dirtypants @ 2:
Well, the ad's all over YouTube and elsewhere, so posting it on C&L is not going to change that.
It's interesting that Obama's connection to Ayers was being kicked around as early as February of this year, but it never found its legs. We'll have to see if this one catches on. If not I'm sure they'll find another pile of poo to throw out to see if it sticks.
What's new? Fox State media uses Rovian tactics...smear and retract.
This wasn't deliberate at all...just like a (D) appearing next to indicted Republicam politicians. No, of course not, this was an innocent mistake.
The scum have 2 smears lined up to destroy Obama - Bill Ayers (Gulit by Association) and Infanticide. And they've indicated they're gonna resurrect Rev Wright. Obama better be prepared to hit back HARD. It was always gonna be ugly, but this year will be unprecedented. The GOP are facing a potential veto proof "Super Majority" and a Supreme Court shifting back to the American people. The Republican party will be dead if that happens. And that's why, Hillary supporters need to get out in force. Persoanlly, I think the PUMAs is a Republican creation.
This is another reason why Obama needs a hard-nosed attack dog (Biden).
zack @ 21:
Does it surprise you that WOOD ran this ad? Not me. Not that I've been keeping an accurate tally, but McCain ads seem to outnumber Obama ads 3 or 4 to one. And who here in GR is going to take our complaints seriously. Now if the FEC had enough commisioners for a quorum.....
BTW, anytime you'd like to voice complaints to WOOD in an, uhm, unconventional maaner, let me know. I live right behind the studios. You bring the bottle rockets. :D
This is absurd. Please remove the ad. It's increasing and fueling the smear and hate campaign. It is despicable and Fox would do that just to gain ground. It's absurd. McCain is an idiot and a shame to all the so-called heroism he touts about serving his country. This is called embarrassing the country, Mr McShame. Vote for Obama!@ Visit WHYOBAMA08.ORG!!!
In Fox News' defense (and I'm no fan of theirs), they did cut out before the most offensive bits.
Isn't it a legal requirement for a Bi-Partisan Campaign commercial to show a couple of hot girls in a deep tonsil sucking kiss?
mike @ 20:
It's easy. Imagine you're a longtime Red Sox fan who despises the Yankees and you get a job working for NESN. You're gonna take great pleasure in trashing the opposition and seeing them defeated.
Okay it's not exactly the same thing as what is going on at the FOX Propaganda Network, but you get the gist.
BTW, I agree. REMOVE THE AD.
This whole thing is meant to make the ad bigger than it really is. Fake Controversy my friends
I'm tired of this shit. Democrats grow some balls. McCain was one of the Keating Five, he left his first wife for his rich second wife who he was having an affair with, all he did was party when he was at Annapolis, he opposed MLK birthday as a national holiday, bomb bomb Iran, come on really.
Jamie @ 19:
Actually, yes, I do: they'll issue a statement that they investigated, and found no wrongdoing on Fox's part, just the way they found no wrongdoing on the part of the McCain campaign when he opted in to the federal funding system, got loans for his campaign,and then opted out.
So Obama was in the Weather Underground when he was 7 years old?
beancounter @ 34:
Good point, but more likely the FEC chairman consulted with Faux Noise on how to air the ad without getting into trouble.
well if fox can run that ad then it's ok
that we all call them just a bunch
of f#cking gop whores and they will
do what they want..
you can not say that was not
intentional. they planned to get this
on the air so they could call it a mistake
so they could run it and run it and run it
Does any one know what else the ad was leading into? It seems like they went completely off topic. How much do you knw about Obama? Then they went into terrorism...were they saying he knows that guy or something!?
PorridgeGun @ 31:
Hey, I put a lot of trust in the bloggers here at C&L, but I think it would be very Republican to discuss its merits- or lack thereof- without actually viewing the ad. Nothing against SilentPat, but I don't take his word for something simply because he posts here.
I totally believe this was an accident. I mean Fox News has never claimed to be professionals, have they?
It comes down to this and this is what the rest of the world sees.
Filthy politics by filthy strategists, commissioned and authorized by their filthy employers (candidates).
If they stoop this low in their cruel, self-serving, win-at-all-costs efforts....where is the sensitivity...the diplomacy in them to rule?
There is no faith in American politicians and the proof is on American stations DAILY.
JC...these people are even proud of it. Rove wallowed in the admiration bestowed on him by half a nation, even though 1/2 a nation knew he was a crook.
I have some experience behind the scenes at a major network station. The only way this could be an accident is if they planned it. OR, if someone slipped it in without the consent or awareness of the floor director.
Since that is about as likely as a news station based on the "Weekly World News" theory of fact checking .... oops, sorry, that's what Faux news is.
its pretty amazing. for an illegal advertisement, its one of the most viewed videos on youtube...
God, what a bunch on idiots on TV. Fools like this are one of the reasons I threw my TV away 31 years ago. She laughs like a 8 year old girl who just saw her first penis.
I wonder how many times they'll 'mistakenly' air it.
After watching the footage a while back of the bumbling FOX staff with Laura Ingraham I would say it's about 50/50 it was intentional. They really are a bunch of dimwits... and the productions staff too!
Faux did a boo boo???... 'Oh I wasn't suppose to cue up 'that' clip... Oh, my bad, I sorry heh heh'... Well I'll be, how could this possssiiii-bleee happen... (grunt).. Yea, sure, just some production flunky's mistake on a (heh heh) busy day. Riigggghttt. Bridges for sale, CHEEEP! right this way sir or mam... Negative ads work??? Well, yea.... unfortunately.. But this looks more like it came right out of the guerrilla marketing playbook... Delivered to the Fox Big cheeses hands from Rove with a plan to deflect the criticism and a promise of protection/payback with a nice little pat on the head and a 'attaboy, good doggy' from the mouth of fatboy hisself...... Whatever, saw it, ain't buyin..next. JD
Rusty "One House" Shackleford @ 16:
Sadly, there are far too many people out there with the IQ of "turnip" or below, such as those who voted for Bush not once, but twice. Yikes
Rena @ 7:
We as a country are that stupid.
mistaKKKe my ass!
Jamie @ 10:
Of course! McCain is Wolf's cash cow for the next four years. Otherwise, what else are they gonna use the Situation Room and all those war maps for ?
The statements and laughter on the part of the FOX "News" prompter-readers, the immediate "Well, it was AN ad!" followed by "It was an ad!" [laughter], makes it QUITE clear that this was no accident. Those were "tells" indicating they knew precisely what was going on, and that they knew they were not supposed to air that ad. This was no accident.
FOX has an extremely large list of instances, many recorded here on Crooks and Liars' archives, with "accidental" goings-on that clearly favor Republicans, and attempt to smear Democrats (going so far as to consistently label guilty Republicans with a (D) to fool ignorant viewers into believing that Democrats are the guilty party). I've yet to see a major mistake on the part of FOX that favors a Democrat over a Republican. The statistical likelihood of FOX erring on one side so utterly consistently by accident is astronomically small. It is coordinated malfeasance, plain and simple, and FOX really should get more than a slap on the wrist from the FCC.
JP @ 49:
It would help if we had a news media that was interested in serving an informed electorate. I guess I am getting too old, used to be the press was a proud institution with noble goals. The civil rights movement, Vietnam, Pentagon Papers, Watergate. Those days are gone. It is no wonder we are dumb as a lump of cay. We are a lump of clay.
Time to bring up Keating. Absolutely. But there's more on the back burner, friends, a lot more involving land deals....just google: mccain, donald r. diamond (for starters). And it's always about helping "friends' make a bundle of money...I think there's some big time stuff the dems are holding back until september...if they don't go all out on it, then they
deserve to lose.
The bushevik FCC will get right on it and do a heckuva job!
Jamie @ 36:
No doubt whatsoever. Everything is rigged to benefit the right-wing.
Another reason why the Republicans cannot afford to allow a Democrat, certainly not a DLC Democrat, to be the White House.
I spoke to an uncommited long-time democrat (hillary supporter) today who was liking mcCain over Obama because he gave decisive answers at the Jesus Christ Celebratory forum in Orange County... I think standing by positions clearly, and decisively is very important in general.
Rena @ 7:
They are right at least about most of the public. The last 8 years are proof of that.
What about how McCain illegally intervened after Cindy stole the Vicodin and Oxycontin from the clinic?
Jamie @ 53:
Only if the American People watched and/or paid attention the the news. I agree that the media is a joke, but many people turn it on and do not really listen. To busy getting kids ready for soccer, football or baseball games. In one ear and out the other.
Beef Jerky @ 59:
Fair game fer sure...off with the kid gloves...time to fight fire with fire.
Look up Harold Simmons, the man who contributed ALL of the $$ for this ad. This man has a vested interest in seeing nuclear waste stored in west texas. Is it any coincidence that John McCunt favors Nuclear energy?
Jeff @ 57:
And McCaint clearly and decisively supports continuing the genocide in Iraq/Anywhere Else that has Oil. Is THAT important?
Why on God's green earth would you even entertain the ludicrous notion that this ad was aired accidentally? It wasn't.
From the network that consistently identifies Republican lawbreakers (and even, on one occasion, McCain himself) as Democratic?
Shocked! Shocked!
Never seen a bigger bunch of bald-faced liars.
"This is not the right ad" - She sounded just like a b-movie actress when she read that line. Shep. Smith sounds even more hokey immediately repeating it. Lucky too that the camera cuts back at the exact moment that she performs her line,er, epiphany. Now I get to see the whole thing replayed on the internets 24 hours a day. Meta-propaganda at its most rich!
Not only is it cued up, the Technician AND the Director see the file name, the piece Title Screen, and a series of cuing "blips," video countdown and audio tones. There really is no way that this video "accidentally" got cued-up. It wouldn't be in the control room, or on the server in a place that it could be accessed, considering that the ad was "rejected" by the top brass. Where I work, the Internal servers are separate from the Public Use servers. The AVID rooms have their own set of networked servers. Creative has their own. So, the real likelihood of accidentally misfiling and miscuing is pretty minimal. IMHO.
--mf
Hm, maybe they put the tape with this potentially illegal ad into a tape deck, so no one would actually air it. Kind of like the following scene from the old British series The Young Ones:
Vyvyan: It's a potion I've invented where when the patient drinks it he turns into an axe-wielding, homicidal maniac! It's basically a cure. For not being an axe-wielding, homicidal maniac. The potential market's enormous!
Neil: [taking a Coca-Cola can out of the fridge] What, is this it?
Vyvyan: Yeah! Yeah, I put it in a Coke can so nobody'd drink it by mistake.
I wonder if the other networks are irresponsible enough to pick up on FOX’s “mistake” and use it as an excuse to run the ad. I wonder if that was the idea all along.
Well, dude, you just aired it on your blog, so I guess the answer would be, "Yes."
SadButTrue @ 18:
Sad is absolutely correct. Of course they did it on purpose to do what ever damage could be done. It's Roger Ailes fer crissakes! He's Jabba the f**king Hut!!
2 seconds of Janet Jackson's "accidental" tit exposure: Full-scale FCC investigation, CBS is fined $550,000 (overturned on appeal)
Blatant "accidental" violation of campaign advertising rules: [Sound of tumbleweeds blowing through ghost town]
They're laughing their heads off over at Fox. Probably pissing themselves. Because if Obama's campaign, or anyone else, complains, the ad gaffe becomes news story, and the "accidental" broadcast gets replayed ad nauseum.
Oh, fucking whoops-a-daisy, Fox.
The penultimate FOXbasher Olbermann has no mention of the incident in his Countdown rundown now. Maybe he does not want to encourage viewers to check out the ad. I did email them the Think Progress link.
nothing will happen, it's not as terrible as a janet jackson bare breast.
Rena @ 7:
No, they don't think we're stupid, but they do know that their viewers are stupid. Agree with everyone who says a lawsuit against Murdoch and Fox should follow.
PEACE
Annoyed Canuck @ 71:
I don't know that there are FCC violations involved here. F-E-C, yes....Unless the 501(c)4 group has reorganized into some sort of organization that is allowed to advocate for or against specific candidates. I don't know that that's happened, but I also don't know that that hasn't happened.
MSNBC should accidentally show a clip of the Forrestal fire that killed 130 sailors in which McCain was the first person to be airlifted from the carrier. Not because he was wounded, but because he was responsible for causing a missile to go off ultimately causing the fire. They had to airlift him because his life was in danger...everyone wanted to kill him. Dare ya MSNBC. Play dirty.
Michael M. @ 1:
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Right you are Michael on both counts.
The Ayers ad has been running in its entirety on SciFi channel this evening. I have seen it at least twice since 5 PM EDT.
Even if the FOX babe was on a legit network, she comes off as utterly incompetent. Stuttering in the wind and conveniently running the wrong video.
Question: Are all FOX News Babes blond and wear their hair like a cross between the 1990s Breck Girl and Nancy Reagan?
what about McCain's anti-America film made for the Viet Cong?
somebody should post that on YouTube or make a commercial
out of it.
[Please quit changing your handle. And 'Groucho' is taken, so when you decide what you want to call yourself everytime you post here, don't use it-Sitemonitor]
Holy crap. The full ad gets even worse...
that was no mistake!
It is so hard for these sleeze bags to keep their sleeze in order. It's the JOB of the propaganda network to line up the propaganda so we DON'T HAVE TO THINK.....damn it! Get your sh*t together plz!!
I'm actually speechless and nauseous.
More fear and smear....
What's ironic to me is how the evangelical right-wing nutfucks only believe in forgiveness when it's convenient for them, but heaven forbid anyone else should be given that privelege. Obama's real estate dealings have absolutely nothing to do with Ayers' past. I'm sure half the population of any major U.S. city has bought real estate from some shady/corrupt/criminal (take your pick) person whether they knew it or not. If that's true, there should be no surprise when they find themselves burning in the fires of hell.
I’ve never worked in television before so excuse me if I’m way off base here….but don’t these clips have to be cued up from some sort of storage system? If FOX agreed not to touch it, why would they still have it on file. let alone within reach to “accidentally” air it? Somethings fishy here. Then again, we’re talking about FOX News.
I wonder if the other networks are irresponsible enough to pick up on FOX’s “mistake” and use it as an excuse to run the ad. I wonder if that was the idea all along.
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that no one will get in any legal trouble over this.
It's all unfolding according to the Rovian plan. It is not an ad - it's a story to be told and shown over and over and over. They've done this before.
Andy K Jong Il @ 76:
Point taken. It may be an FEC rule, not FCC. Or some other regulation. Same diff, though.
In any case, Fox News has shown itself to be very devious and crafty. If Obama's people make an issue of the illegal ad, it will probably get shown again, and not just on Fox. At the very least, the supposed Obama/Ayers connection, already much sneered at on the Right, gets wider media play.
If the election rules mean anything, Fox would be alerted the matter will be pursued after the election, and strongly warned against any repetition of this kind of underhanded advocacy.
The ad's getting air-time on non-fox stations here in Cincinnati, Ohio. I saw it twice tonight on our local CBS affiliate.
Why would they cut back to the reporter just as she's saying"this is not the right ad"?
It doesn't fit.If this was a real mistake you would probably hear her but not see her immediately.
It's to cut and dried.It stinks on ice.
Trittydi @ 4:
Tired of this crap also and why do they still have an FCC license at all , it should have been yanked a long time ago and the appalling thing is, they don't even try to hide their attack on Dems and cheerleading Republicans and all of their supposed screw ups are while they are trying to smear a liberal .
Kahoneez @ 92:
What license? It's a cable channel.
See the conversation I've been having with Annoyed_Canuck@89 . I'm not sure that Faux News is breaking any law.
these "journalists" know what they are doing, and i am not just talking about fox. They can not plead ignorance. They are the needle by which the vile, democracy killing, discourse gets mainlined into the body. This is their bread and butter.
They want the neocons to succeed.
It's never the reverse. mccain, after 26 years of study and expertise gets suni, shea and what iran is confused--3 TIMES IN 24 HOURS--and under the rug it goes. personally, i can think of a dozen ways to cover this story (that is 2 weeks and 2 days of news coverage). But at the core is this fundamental fact--an expert, like mccain, would have corrected himself immediately, that or early onset alzhiemers, or really a lack of fundemental knowledge, or maybe the riggors of the job are too much for him, or maybe all muslims look like the enemy.... No alarm bells here, people....move along...no need to mention mccain, enemy and forgot on a loop for 2week, 2 days.
funny how the press never found a way to vouch for obama's patriotism, or mainstream religious beliefs, or his humility. With democrats, it lets put the shit out there and see if it sticks. because really as journalists, who are we to say. the critics may be right, obama might really hate america. Que up the footage of obama's preacher saying god damn america, and lets run it out of context on a loop 2weeks, 2days. See people who's brains we're rotting, SCARY BLACK MAN.
EXCUSE ME, I HAVE TO PUKE NOW!
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Funny, here in my town, I know for a fact that one station here held off running it for 8 hours so they could run it by the lawyers.
The FEC is so sad that it will run hundreds of times before they act. Everybody knows it's fraudulent. But money talks.
That was no mistake - they ran it this morning on the show that follows Fox and Friends. Not as a news item, as a paid ad.
That FOX bimbette reporter is as shitty an actress as she is a reporter. How coincidental that she says "wrong ad" just as they cut away to her. And that creepy alien-looking anchor just smirks. It was no accident.
jwazzz @ 97:
Not doubting that you saw it, and not doubting that you saw it in an ad break on Faux News.
However, how do you know that it was Faux News running it? If you've got cable, it might be the cable company that ran the ad in one of their own slots. Now, if you have a dish...It's on Faux News, afaik.
What were they doing with an ad queued up ready to go, that had been considered illegal? Did they think it was a Tide ad? Do ads come into FOX 'News' unlabeled?
Or are they SO unprofessional, they didn't know that if you put that tape in that machine that's set to be on air and push the play button, it would go on people's TVs?
Was the director maybe taking a morning 'constitutional?'
I watched it happen as I was flipping through channels; the most bizarre part was that the ad played in its entirety, even though the blonde said "oops--wrong ad" as it was playing, and then Shepard Smith has a smug smirk on his face when the ad finishes and cuts back to him and the blonde on split screen. Fox is so awful that they have to stoop to do these covert ad plays, even as no one fines or sues them, and most people watching have subliminally registered the ad, like subliminal advertising on american idol with the coca-cola cups---ugh, it's totally revolting that some people watch this channel on a regular basis.
Has anyone filed a complaint with the FCC about this? If so, they will have to investigate and respond. Anyone can file a complaint against any local affiliate or TV station that ran this, even if it was a mistake. So if any of you actually saw this and can document the date and time, you can challenge the broadcast license of whomever aired it.
moniker @ 35:
LOL!!
How friggin lame do you have to be to use a Kevin Bacon six-degrees-of-separation connection to some obscure guy who did something 40 years ago. Pathetic!
Very unlikely that it was an accident. In order to queue the clip, somebody first had to procure it. How often do they show the wrong ad when it's detrimental to conservatives?
Of course the idea was to get the ad on the air. Fox will pay a fine, probably less than the cost of the airtime to run the ad in the first place, and everyone will meet at the club for drinks afterwards. Mission accomplished.
This is complete and utter b.s. - if you're going to air a political ad as part of your show, you damned well make sure it's the right ad. The chain is: producer, writer, possibly an intern if the tape needs to be located, the editor, the director in the booth, a tape operator if FOX isn't running a completely server-based newsroom.
miss_kitty @ 101:
pinkobait @ 92:
Apple @ 89:
Monkeyfister @ 67:
This has nothing to do with accidental anything.
It was deliberate, premeditated propaganda against the American people, on American soil, by faux Americans.
THAT. IS. ILLEGAL!
Let's see if anything happens.
IF not.... then I guess we can start having our own "accidents" all over the networks too.
As low and immoral as Karl Rove or Fox may go, their creativity inspired by greed and fear, is not match for real talent!
I can hardly wait to see John Stewart and Stephen Colbert's "accidents."
Let's bring up all the McCain skeletons and rattle, parade, and have us some good ol' "oops" moments, shall we??
clever
KC @ 61:
I been sayin that for months...fuck this play nice bullshit. Let's go forth and kick ass!
BREAKING .... N E W S !!!!
Is Cindi McCain still a junkie!!!
How does Cindi McCain deal with her addiction to drugs??
This was no accident. Its obvious from the look on his face that smith knew about the switch. And at the end there smith even exhibited his demonic possession by Faust News.
That was no accident! Fox News!? Come on! Fox is notorious for "slipping" stuff like this in.
To answer your question. Yes they do. While it has been about 30 years since I worked at both a TV and a radio station-I was an electronic tech-the ads are in fact loaded and cued up in sequence way before the start of a program, you won't see, even on local broadcasts, a long wait time while they look for an ad. If it was cued up, then someone wanted it played. It might not have been the talent, but somebody wanted it played at that place in the script-I hope that no one thinks that all the gab is not up on a teleprompter. Hope that fox has some 'splainin to do.
Shadowgm Hussein @ 107:
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You think that the wrong clip never airs on a live show? Live TV is not a blooperfest, but mistakes do happen.
The illegal ad is a news story in and of itself. That alone should get it some air play.
Servers are the big thing these days in the digital television world. The days of quad cart machines is long gone. An ad may arrive on tape, but would be input to a server for broadcast use.
ruffmama @ 83:
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Then why didn't they run the whole ad?
Let em bring up Rezko....remember Rezko was working both sides of the aisle. Rezko was going to give up info on Rove and the Repugs. Bring it on!
i can't think of one rightwing 'redemption' story that comes close to ayers'. no...not...uh...ted haggard...or the bathroom stall guy.
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